Net revenue was down 4.6 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.-\u00a0The Star Entertainment Group\u00a0<\/strong>has reported net revenue of AU$419.2m (US$271.5m) for the third quarter of the financial year 2024.\u00a0Revenue was down 4.6 per cent year-on-year. Revenue was highest in January (AU$146.6m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Revenue from premium gaming rooms decreased across all properties.\u00a0The Star Sydney saw a 19.3 per cent decline in revenue from premium gaming rooms, while The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Brisbane saw a 20 per cent and 28 per cent decrease, respectively.\u00a0However, revenue from the main gaming floor increased by 5.4 per cent at The Star Sydney, 4.6 per cent at The Star Gold Coast, and 6.4 per cent at Treasury Brisbane.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gaming levies and taxes amounted to AU$105m, down 2.9 per cent when compared to the previous year. Operating expenses were AU$276.3m, up 4.2 per cent in year-on-year terms. The net loss after tax was AU$6.8m compated to AU$49.7m in the third quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The company reported that negotiations for the sale of the Treasury Casino, Hotel and car park were progressing. As regards the phased opening of\u00a0Queen\u2019s Wharf Brisbane<\/a>, the casino operator said it remains on track for August 2024 with the gaming floors on levels 5 and 6 handed over to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this week, the\u00a0New South Wales Independent Casino Commission<\/strong>\u00a0(NICC) started\u00a0a second inquiry into The Star’s casino in Sydney<\/a>.\u00a0Nicholas Weeks<\/strong>\u00a0told the first hearing that the operator falsified welfare checks on players. Weeks was appointed special manager of the casino by the NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) in October 2022 when\u00a0the regulator suspended the company\u2019s licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He further stated that Liquor and Gaming NSW officers found that Star Sydney failed to complete welfare checks on customers who played on machines for more than three hours. He said customer support officers falsified the compliance log<\/strong> to indicate that the check had been completed. It was found that this was a common occurrence in Sydney, which led to an investigation into Star\u2019s Brisbane and Gold Coast locations named \u201cOperation Falskur\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weeks was worried that the breaches were only discovered by Liquor and Gaming inspectors and not by staff within the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Net revenue was down 4.6 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":9407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Star Entertainment Group reported a 4.6% year-on-year decline in Q3 FY24 net revenue to AU$419.2m, primarily due to significant decreases in premium gaming room revenue despite growth on main gaming floors. 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